NYC gun owners named on Gawker

Gawker editor John Cook on Tuesday published a list of licensed gun owners in New York City from 2010, though it does not include addresses.

Cook wrote in an article titled, “Here Is a List of All the A—holes Who Own Guns in New York City” that he obtained the 446-page list in 2010 after a Freedom of Information law request, for work on a different story. Cook did not publish the full list at that time but used it to report other stories about prominent gun owners.

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Last month, suburban-New York newspaper The Journal News sparked controversy for publishing an online map of the names and addresses of people with pistol permits in the wake of the Dec. 14 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., that left 20 children and six others dead at the school.

So why didn’t Cook include addresses in his list?

“Because the NYPD is more interested in raping and/or eating ladies and spying on Muslims than it is in honoring public records law, the list contains only the names, and not the addresses, of the licensees,” Cook wrote in the article.

Cook wrote that a considerable number of gun owners’ addresses are available elsewhere online via a now-defunct website called Who’s Packing.

“In any case, it’s clear that many of the Rockland County and Westchester County gun owners who are outraged at having their addresses plastered on the internet have had those addresses plastered on the internet for years without it causing a problem,” Cook wrote.

He added: “And if anyone wanted to really stir some sh-t up, they’d grab those Who’s Packing databases and throw them up on Google Maps.”

Readers' Comments (26)

Ah yes. Does anyone else remember when these lists were being compiled and registration was beginning to be debated? Remember the "this is for law enforcement use only"? "This information is never going to be made public". "Anyone who tells you these lists would ever be published is just a nut". Now we are to believe our health records would never be made public as well. Good luck with that.

How rabidly insane and paranoid are the anti-gunner when they feel it's okay to treat law abiding citizens like sexual predators? I hope the people are beginning to see how utterly out of it the anti-gunners are.

Would he be so comfortable if it were his address posted on a pro- gun site? I am not advocating violence against this idiot. No, that is the left's tactic. One they routinely accuse everyone else of. Apparently he has no problem with people harassing gun owners. But heaven forbid gun owners harassed him. That would be a crime.

How about we publish, with addresses and pictures, everyone who has HIV? This would be ridiculous of course. It would also be a clear invasion of privacy and a trampling of ones rights. But, by the left's twisted logic "if you could harm someone you should be identified". Never mind you haven't nor would you. Never mind you obey the law. Nope, you could therefore you deserve to be called out. These people are disgusting.

Jesus Christ, these A-Holes have no decency. Someone needs to stop these idiots from terrorizing law abiding citizens. I will be getting my guns on the street so I will be armed and not terrorized. Screw your laws.

This is just like the group that posted names and addresses of doctors who provide abortions. As for Cook's comments, those doctors' names were also all over the web before that. They were found guilty of inciting violence, and this paper should as well. And be held liable for aiding and abetting any criminal activity that comes from publishing this data.

Completely irresponsible in this day and age to commit such a juvenile act.

How about posting all teh addresses of those that own guns ILLEGALY in New York, you know - the criminals that ctually do harm with weapons, instead of law abiding owners.

Ah yes. Does anyone else remember when these lists were being compiled and by I Want This" >registration was beginning to be debated? Remember the "this is for law enforcement use only"? "This information is never going to be made public". "Anyone who tells you these lists would ever be published is just a nut". Now we are to believe our health records would never be made public as well. Good luck with that.

That's there goal........

Just look at their treatment of "Joe the Plumber," walking all over his Constitutional rights using private information.

If you DARE criticize this government, that VD or AIDS test you had decades ago in college is destined to hit the front pages......

This is the face of a man who is dangerously mentally ill and needs to be removed from society for public safety. John Cook is one of those of such emotional intensity, he is likely to "snap" then pick up an assault rifle and merciless slaughter children or others.

I am not joking, John Cook displays many of the symptoms of a person who is dangerously mentally ill.

The way to beat the NRA---if Google and everybody else publishes the names of the gun owners, there's no way in hell the NRA can boycott advertisers or anything else. Kinda' like the Dutch boy with the dyke.